Tuberculosis scare looms large over India

Study estimates over 62m tuberculosis cases, 8m related deaths in India during 2021-2040

Over 62 million cases of tuberculosis and eight million deaths are estimated in India in the two decades up to 2040, along with a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) loss of more than $146 billion, according to a study.

The researchers, including those from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, said that low-income households would bear the larger share of health-related burden, while the high-income ones the larger share of the economic burden due to the disease.